{"product_id":"the-canvas-9781934824658","title":"The Canvas","description":"\u003cp\u003eA novel as suspenseful as it is complex.--Deutsche Welle TV\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLoosely based on the true story of Binjamin Wilkomirski, whose fabricated 1995 Holocaust memoir transfixed the reading public, The Canvas has a singular construction--its two inter-related narratives begin at either end of the book and meet in the middle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmnon Zichroni, a psychoanalyst in Zurich, encourages Minsky to write a book about his traumatic childhood experience in a Nazi death camp, a memoir which the journalist Jan Wechsler claims is a fiction. Ten years later, a suitcase arrives on Wechsler's doorstep. Allegedly, he lost the suitcase an a trip to Israel, but Wechsler has no memory of the suitcase, nor the trip, and he travels to Israel to investigate the mystery. But it turns out he has been to Israel before, and his host on the trip, Amnon Zichroni, has been missing ever since...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA mind-bending investigation of memory, identity, truth, and delusion, \u003ci\u003eThe Canvas\u003c\/i\u003e is the publishing event of the year, a novel whose meaning depends on the order in which it is read.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBenjamin Stein\u003c\/b\u003e was born in East Berlin in 1970. He has worked as an editor and correspondent for various computer magazines and has been a corporate It advisor since 1998. He owns the author-run publishing house Edition Neue Moderne and writes the literary weblog \u003ci\u003eTurmsegler\u003c\/i\u003e. Benjamin Stein is married with two children and lives in Munich.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrian Zumhagen\u003c\/b\u003e has been a weekend anchor at WNYC since 2003. He received a grant from the Arthur F. Burns Fellowship to produce radio features for the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. \u003ci\u003eThe Canvas\u003c\/i\u003e is his first book translation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Open Letter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/26\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781934824658\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 330\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.51h x 5.53w x 0.97d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/27\/2012\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Benjamin Stein","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41229489602741,"sku":"9781934824658","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_38086a0d-d409-446d-9c6d-f90993377234.jpg?v=1634041013","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-canvas-9781934824658","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}